Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

I crunched some of my own numbers on Twitter on Monday. I looked at 80 titles that were all books I have checked out, on hold, returned last week, or were library books I’ve read since January. They were a mix of print and e-reading (on my Kindle) Titles ranging from Orange is the New Black to Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics to Dragons Love Tacos. None were available on KindleUnlimited. (5 weren’t even available on Kindle) Looking at this week’s NYT’s bestseller combined print/ebook fiction list http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-07-27/combined-print-and-e-book-fiction/list.html only 1 is available on Kindle, and it’s a self-pub. So….

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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com. He's also on...